Non-refillable bottle.



llivrrnb CHARLES FREDERIC HATELY, OF RIALTO, CALIFORNIA.

NON REFlLLABLE BOTTLE.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 722,016, dated March 3, 1903.

Application filed May 10, 1902. Serial No. 106,720. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that 1, CHARLES FREDERIC HATELY, a citizen of the United States, and a resident of Rialto, in the county of San Bernardino and State of California, have invented a new and Improved Non-Refillable Bottle, of which the following is a full, clear, and exact description.

The object of this invention is to provide simple novel details of construction for a bottle, which will effectively prevent a reuse of the bottle as a mercantile package, and thus prevent the fraudulent sale of a liquid counterfeiting that originally contained in the bottle.

The invention consist in the novel construction and combination of parts, as is hereinafter described, and defined in the appended claims.

Reference is to be had to the accompanying drawings, formingapart of this specification, in which similar characters of reference indicate corresponding parts in all the figures.

Figure 1 is a sectional side elevation of a bottle having details of the improvement therein. Fig. 2 is a sectional plan view substantially on the line 2 2 in Fig. 3. Fig. 3 is an enlarged longitudinal sectional view of a bottle-neck and of a modified form of the details of invention. Fig. 4 is a side elevation of one of the details of the invention somewhat changed in form from the same feature as shown in Figs. 1, 2, and 3; and Fig. 5 isa plan view of the detail shown in Fig. 4.

In the drawings, 6 indicates a glass bottle of the usual form given to such receptacles used forholding liquorfor trade purposes. A thin-walled glass tube 7 is provided and is integral at its larger or lower end with the bottom wall 6 of the bottle-body, said junction being eifected at the center of said bottom wall that is apertured to receive the tube. The body of the central tube 7 tapers upwardly and extends up through the bottle 6 and its neck 6", coincident with the axial center thereof, having a length equal to that of the bottle and neck, so that the upper end of the tube will be level with the upper end of the bottle-neck.

A wire rod 8 of suitable gage has a cork 9 mounted and secured upon one end thereof, the cork fitting air-tight in the lower end of the tube 7 and the wire extending from the cork up through said tube, as indicated in Fig. 1. The upper portion of the tapered tube 7 passes liquid-tight through a sealingcork 10, fitted in a like manner into the bottle-neck 6* at or near its upper end, said cork having its upper end coated with any suitable cement 10. A plurality of spaced projections, such as S" or 8", are formed or secured in or on the wire rod 8, these projections having loose contact with the inner surface of the tube 7, and, as shown in Fig. 1, the upper end of the wire rod may be bent laterally, as at a, so as to lap upon the cement 10, or the lapped end may be bedded in the cement, if this is preferred, said end portion affording means to pull upon the rod by any suitable implement.

It is to be understood that before the cork 10 is inserted within the neck 6 of the bottle any liquid that is to .be held as an original filling therefor is to be introduced, the liquid being manifestly held from escape after the cork 10 is inserted, and the upper end of the tube 7 is affixed in a central perforation in the cork, as before mentioned.

IVhen the contents of the bottle are to be removed, the wire 8 is moved longitudinally toward the cork 10 by manipulation of the bent end a, this pull on the Wire rod causing the projections S, which in Figs. 1 and 3 are shown in the form of wire coils, to press upon the tapered wall of the fragile tube 7 and fracture it, so as to produce an aperture therein. The breaking of the thin glass tube 7 affords a passage for the liquid contents of the bottle into the upper portion of the tube that remains fixed in the cork 10 and thence may be poured out of the bottle, the free discharge of the liquid being facilitated by relaxing the cork 9, so as to admit air into the lower part of the tube 7, this adjustment of the cork 9 obviously being only permissible when the bottle is turned toward a horizontal position, so as to avoid escapeof the liquid from the lower end of the tube.

In Figs. 4 and 5 the projections 8 on the wire rod 8 are shown as radiating arms,which may be arranged to project in sets of three or four at proper iptervals on the rod, and the outer ends of t'fie arms, which normally have loose contact with the inner surface of the upwardly-tapered tube 7 in like manner as the coiled projections 8, efiect the positive fracture of the tube when the wire rod is drawn out of the cork 10 a proper distance.

In Figs. 2 and 3 a modified means for drawing the wire rod 8 endwise in the tube 7 is shown. In this construction of parts the bottle-neck 6 is circumferen tially grooved, as at b, for the reception of a keeper-band of wire, such as 11, held therein by any available means, said wire band affording a fulcrum for opposite arms 12 of an inverted wire loop 12, which has its bow portion loosely engaged with a ring-eye 0, formed on the upper end of the wire rod 8. The tube 7 is fixed at its upper end in a central perforation in the cork 10", driven air and liquid tight into the neck of the bottle. A lever 13 is formed or secured on the ends of the pair of arms 12 where they are held to rock on the wire band 11, said lever projecting at a proper angle laterally in looped form, and when rocked downward, as shown in Fig. 3, holds the wire rod 8 depressed in the tube 7, which will prevent an accidental elevation of the rod and consequent fracture of the fragile glass tube. As the tube 7 at its upper end is open to the atmosphere, it will be seen that upon rocking the lever 13 upward, as shown by dotted lines in Fig. 3, the rod 8 will be correspondingly raised, and this sliding movement of the wire rod will forcibly impinge the projections 8 or 8 upon the wall of the tube 7, so as to break it and permit the contents of the bottle to pass through the neck thereof when the bottle is tipped or inverted.

Having thus described my invention, I claim as new and desire to secure by Letters Patent-- 1. A non-refillable bottle, comprising a receptacle, a fragile tube extended longitudinally in the receptacle, a closure for the pouring end of the receptacle and through which the tube extends, and means operative at said end of the receptacle for fracturing the tube, to permit the escape of the liquid contents of the bottle through the closure and the portion of the tube remaining therein.

2. A non-refillable bottle, comprising a receptacle, a fragile tube fixed at one end over an opening in the bottom of the receptacle and projecting up through the top thereof, a closure at the pouring end of the receptacle, and means operative at said closure for fractnring the tube in the receptacle so as to permit an escape of the contents of the receptacle below the closure, through a portion of the tube held therein.

3. A non-refillable bottle, comprising a receptacle having a neck thereon, an upwardlytapered fragile tube fixed at its lower end to the bottom wall over an opening in the bottom of said receptacle and extending up through the neck, a closure at the upper end of the neck, and a wire heldin the tube,which by longitudinal movement is adapted to fracture the tube and permit the escape of the liquid contents of the receptacle.

4. A non-refillable bottle comprising a receptacle havinga neck thereon, an upwardlytapered fragile tube fixed at its lower end upon the bottom wall of the receptacle over an opening therein and extending up through the neck, a closure in the neck surrounding the upper end of the tube, a closure in the lower end of the tube, a wire extended from the lower closure through the tube and upper closure, said wire having a projection thereon adapted to fracture the tube when the wire is moved endwise through the upper end of the tube.

5. A non-refillable bottle, comprising a receptacle, a neck on one end of said receptacle, an upwardly-tapered fragile tube fixed at its lower end over a central perforation in the lower Wall of the receptacle to said wall,a movable closure for the lower end of the tube, a closure for the upper end of the neck, awire having a lateral projection thereon, said wire extending from the lower closure through the fragile tube, and means for moving the wire endwise, whereby to impinge the projection on the wire against the wall of the tube, to fracture the tube.

6. A non-refillable bottle, comprising a receptacle having a neck thereon, a closure for the neck, an upwardly-tapered fragile tube fixed at its lower end to the bottom wall over a perforation therein and extended up through the neck and its closure, a movable closure in the lower end of the tube, a wire, a plurality of lateral, spaced projections on the wire, said wire extending through the tube, and a rockable lever device held on the neck and connected with the projecting end of the wire, said device by rocking movement of its lever raising the wire and fracturing the tube by impinge of the projections on the wire against the inner surface of the tube.

7. In a device of the character described, the bottle having a neck, the tapered fragile tube fixed by its larger end to the bottom of the bottle and extending through the neck, a wire held at the bottom of the tube by a closure therein projecting up through the tube and out of its upper end, a closure for the top of the neck, through which the tube passes, and a plurality of projections on the wire, loosely contacting with the inner surface of the tube, said projections by impinge upon the tube fracturing it when the wire is drawn upon at the upper end of the tube.

In testimony whereof I have signed my name to this specification in the presence of two subscribing witnesses.

CHARLES FREDERIC I-IATELY.

Witnesses:

ARTHUR WELDoN, F. P. BORSSAD. 

